Growing up in the suburbs, country life was relatively unknown to me until I was in secondary school. I’d certainly never heard the words ‘Olympic Skeet’. My father stumbled across…
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The Game Fair 2023 – what to see and do
The Game Fair returns to Ragley Hall in Warwickshire at the end of this month to celebrate its 65th anniversary. Close to 150,000 visitors are expected to attend from Friday,…
The best gun slips
When you have a good gun slip in your possession you hardly notice the potential flaws a bad slip can cause you. Aching shoulders, weak leather or worst of all…
The European eel: a life extraordinary
Do your laces up, Michael,” Miss Watson, my teacher, commanded “I don’t know how,” I replied. “Nanny hasn’t taught me yet.” “Well come here and I’ll teach you,” she responded.…
August 2023
The Field’s August issue is brimming with guns and grouse. We are always keen on firsts, and this month feature a world-exclusive on our cover as we showcase the new…
5 cricket players who love fieldsports
Anyone born in Britain in the 1960s, and allowed to watch television as a child, will remember Mr Benn. The animated series’ eponymous hero was, at first blush, quintessentially English,…
The Field’s choice of August sporting kit
August is a month which heralds many great sporting events. The Glorious Twelfth and the opportunity to bag a Macnab to name a couple. We round up the August sporting…
Six of the best properties near moorland
Dreaming of seeing purple heather out of your bedroom window? Look no further. We round up the six best properties near moorland currently on the market. SIX OF THE BEST…
Our wild fish future
One of the great benefits of my position as fishing consultant for the BBC 2 series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is that I get to spend much of the…
Village flower shows
In the late 1980s, I was involved in the making of two series of programmes for Channel 4, entitled Village Show. We visited flower shows all over the kingdom, including…